In a nod to just about every era of pro and semi-pro hockey since the Vancouver Millionaires won the Stanley Cup in 1915, the new Canucks jerseys are a smorgasbord of borrowed styles.

"I'd agree they're busy-looking," said Doug Jamieson, a Nanaimo hockey-sweater collectors. "The old jerseys, the teams that haven't changed their basic look in decades, they've held up because they're simple and I guess they have historical significance."

Ask most hockey fans which is the worst NHL jersey of all-time and the answer as often as not is the pumpkin-coloured Canucks V-neck with red and black trim.

But Marc Juteau, a jersey collector in Montreal, thinks it needs to share a spot on the coat-hangar-of-shame.

"A lot of people would say that Canucks one, but I'd have to say the old Quebec Nordiques one was the worst," he said. "Maybe you want to put them in the same boat as a tie for worst ever."

And best ever?

He'd go with the red interlocking letters of N and Y on a blue background behind the white lettering that spells Americans, adorned with stars and stripes, that graced New York's first NHL team.

"If you give me the option of picking from any NHL jersey that's ever been done, I'd choose the jersey from the old New York Americans," Juteau said.

"The new jerseys today are good looking and everything, but they're commercial.

"I'm very much more fond of the older stuff, like the Seattle Metropolitans."

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